Valentino's Ghost

Overview

The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. The film lays bare the truths behind taboo subjects that are conspicuously avoided, or merely treated as sound bites, by the mainstream American media: "Why do they hate us?" "Why do we hate them?" What were the events that led to the 9/11 attacks? What are the politics behind the U.S.-Israeli relationship? Why is there a robust debate about these subjects in Europe, the Arab World and in Israel itself, but not in the U.S.? Valentino's Ghost provides a fresh inquiry which challenges the media's daily barrage of rhetoric and misinformation about our complex and vital relationship with this part of the world

Trailer

Cast

Ahmed Ahmed

Self

Hillary Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Mike Farrell

Narrator (voice)

Niall Ferguson

Self

Robert Fisk

Self

Diana Abu Jaber

Self

Maz Jobrani

Self

Aron Kader

Self

Melani McAlister

Self